The Wilmingtonian., 1887-01-29

private climate when he has paid 5000 or
to lie about the climate of my ten-acre
ranch
But, to the serious, California has the fin
est climates in the world. There are cold
places il one hunts for them, but the shelter
ed valleys offer everything 10 the way of fine
Climate that any reasonable person ought to
expect to find this side of Heaven. On this,
the 14th day of December the grass is grow
Ing luxuriantly, the yards and gardens are
masses of bloom, the tenderest plants show
no frost touches, women are carrying sun
shades children walk the streets without
wraps; canaries hang outside of windows, the
air is as soft as that of the fairest day of au
Eastern June, and the voice of the man
swearing at the cellar furnace is not heard
in all the land. Iu fact winter seems to have
been dropped out OF the procession of sea-
sons and one fresh from the East, as am,
feels as if he had jumped from early Novem
Der to late May and was Just starting in on
brand new summer. When you Delaware
folks are going through your annual trials
of being frozen stiff one week and thawed
out the next, when you are "suowed under
in January and February, when the bliz-
yards from the Northwest are blowing the
tacks out of your carpets In spite of your
weather strips and storm doors, and when
many of you are thinking how hard it is to
keep cellar furnace and be true christian
both at the sane time, we will be seeing this
beautiful valley put on its brightest clothes
One needs only to see the fences here to be
convinced that the winds of this valley are
not to be feared. A cheap style of fence is
made of redwood pickets driven in the
ground about three inches, and supported by
one board nailed near the top. Fences of
this sort that have been standing twenty-five
years are to be seen near San Jose. The red
wood pckets mover rot In or out of the
ground. An Eastern Nor'wester would
blow one of these fences into the next coun-
try between sundown and dark.
am convinced by my short acquaintance
with it and l have ridden over only about
ten square miles of it, that the Santa Clara
Valley of California is the most beautiful as
In support of this we have the testimony of
those who have seen all the famous places of
Europe and America and have then settled
down here to spend the remainder of Their
lives
When the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad opens It's proposed line through this
valley and southwark, connecting the pre-
sent terminus Of its system at Mojave with
San Francisco, which it will do within the
next twelve or eighteen months, and thus
bring San Jose on transcontinenta line, the
frost-bitten people of the North aud East
will begin to find out about this wonderful
and of December Strawberries and roses
January green peas aud radishes. February
blooms running riot, March zephyrs that
don't rumple the feathers of canary bird
and nine or ten months of fresh fruits from
the trees aud vines in every year. Then
there will soon be happy family on every
i've Or ten acres of Santa Clara Valley soil,
aud SO, 900 or even $4,000 an acre may be-
considered cheap for it five years hence.
We have visited a number Of ranches and
have usually come back loaded down with
fruit and flowers. Californian3 never seem
happier than when bestowng such gifts on
visitors until they cry out "hold enough ~
AS write am quite surrounded by bou-
quets as big as prize cabbages, containing
many rare flowers, all culled to-day and yes
Jerday in the opeu air.
Hoping the North wind is using you gent
" (the memory of how it used to shake my
spinal column haunts me still y will close.
L [Middetown Transcript.